Men's Soccer (Football) Thread Soccer • Page 277

Every game is entertaining. Then England play.

VAR is great in every game. Then English refs arrive.

 

As much as I love this France kit I think their blue one this year might be better.

 

@orangehorizon someone else mentioned it earlier, but you have really lucked out with the Austria v Netherlands match.

 

Hey, that's not entirely fair. The French have done a fine job of stinking the games out too.

 

Southgate and Deschsmps are the spider-man meme

 

TIL Diego Forlan is quite an adept professional Tennis player.

 

My dad message me to tell me France vs Netherlands was crap haha. Is that true? I’m about to watch the other two anyway.

btw, what a fucking gig. Paramore were truly excellent at what was apparently the biggest venue they have ever played.

And Taylor was excellent of course. The show is brilliant. We planned a drink and toilet break for between Delicate and Cardigan which was basically the only time she wasn’t dropping 10/10 bangers. Also, if you’re standing your back will hurt for sure by the time she gets to TTPD & Midnights. I am way too old for a five hour gig.

Our surprise songs were a mash up of Hits Different and Death by a Thousand Cuts, plus the debut of The Black Dog which was awesome

Brilliant show though and impeccable vibes. Lots of great costumes. I just went with a homemade Junior Jewels shirt from You Belong With Me, which got a lot of compliments and people handing me YBWM bracelets lol.

 

The first half hour was really great for France-Netherlands, then it just devolved into a bit of a mess.

I’m very stoked to see Paramore. It’s been since 2007! We are standing, so good note.

The Black Dog is so good. That’s a great get.

I should probably figure out what to wear, haha.

 

Everton, Villa, Newcastle, Chelsea all weirdly selling each other players back and forth to fix their financial issues.

 

ha ha fuck

 

I don’t really blame any of the clubs involved, but this really does make a mockery of PSR.

 

Love Minteh but also love DCL. I guess now I know what Natalie Imbruglia felt like.

 

On a more serious note, this is what the Premier League get for forcing clubs into selling their talent each summer in order to comply to their rules. They don't mind when we're selling Rooney to United or Villa sell Grealish to City, homegrown players they've put years into developing, but when we transfer "dross" to each other we're cheats? Fuck that.

If you don't like it, don't back clubs into a corner.

 

Yeah pretty much. PSR is a good idea but clubs will always find their way around if they wanted to.

 

England players not fit enough to press effectively, claims Gareth Southgate

erm what?

 

Southgate has lost the plot (if he ever had it). The pressing quote and the Kalvin Phillips one from the other night, christ.

There's going to be stories after the tournament of the England camp being a proper toxic environment.

 

Wow, I guess he really is destined to manage United

 

Moyes casually referring to Czechia as Czechoslovakia, a country that last existed in 1992.

 

Steve Holland, enough said.

Anyway this is giving me Euro 2016 vibes - manager out of ideas, fans and media out of patience, general sense of cracking under pressure. If Kane starts taking corners we'll know it's over.

 

You picked the players and tactics!

 

Complaining about not having guys that work for you system when you left guys at home that have had success in your system.

 

Classic "getting the excuses in early" comments by Southgate. Reeks of defeatism, too, and England haven't even knocked out (yet).

 

Not really anything new here. But the way Gold and O’Keefe are reporting on Eze/Spurs, I think it’ll be a failure if we don’t bring him in. He’s the top target. He has a release clause. He shares the same agency as a lot of players and figures at the club. He is reportedly open to joining Spurs.

I’m not usually one for this type of statement, but just get it done. We can afford it.

 

Fuck me, what a miss.

 

Gutting end for Georgia. 3v1, blazing it over with the last kick of the game